Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, MBS signed up next October's worldseries baseball broadcasts (sponsor: Gillette Safety Razor Co.). If the FCC order goes into effect as scheduled, MBS will be able to buy time for the event on any station that wants to sell it. It may be the first big event of its kind to go on the air under the new regulations...
...copies. To newsstands went 80,000 copies (10? a copy); to subscribers went 37,000 annual subscriptions ($1 a year), about half of them donated by good-neighborly U.S. readers. Included were 32 pages of ads-first in Reader's Digest-by such firms as Gillette Razor, General Motors, Parker Pen, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, big oil companies...
Last week it looked as though Adam and NBC would profit no more from fighting. Shouldering into their sporting alley came MBS and Gillette Safety Razor Co., brandishing a contract with Promoter Mike Jacobs, by which all his Twentieth Century Sporting Club bouts would be theirs for the airing. Stunned were Adam and NBC, whose contract with Jacobs ends in June. Since Jacobs looms in boxing like a Mellon in aluminum, they would probably waste their time broadcasting any matches outside his jurisdiction. But NBC was not willing to be counted out, claimed at week's end it still...
...years the U. S. Government has given Reynolds a helping hand to the tune of $38,000,000, enabled him to build six new plants and establish a mining company. But Government help did not end there. Last week razor-tongued Interior Secretary Ickes turned thumbs down on Alcoa's plea for enough Bonneville power to operate a new plant in the Vancouver area. Quacked Ickes: "I am merely following the letter of the law."* But the power will go to Reynolds instead...
...baroque art and Liszt, author of a distinguished travel book (Roumanian Journey) and much verse. Edith usually dresses like a medieval prioress, writes sharp, hard, colorful poetry that gives the impression of viridian green and Chinaman's-heart's-blood laid on in arabesque by a razor blade...